List of Famous people born in Istanbul Province

Ceyhun Eriş is a Turkish retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Tutya Yılmaz is a Turkish female artistic gymnast who represented Turkey at the 2014 Youth Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2016, she was named Turkish Female Athlete of the Year.

Nikos K. Logothetis is a Greek biologist and neuroscientist. Logothetis studies visual perception and object recognition; he is well-known for his work demonstrating that BOLD fMRI data is related to neuronal activity. Logothetis directed the department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen from 1996 to 2020. He will co-direct the International Center for Primate Brain Research in Shanghai beginning in late 2020 or early 2021.

Derya Karadaş is a Turkish actress. Her family, who lived in Bingöl until they moved to Istanbul in 1980, are of Kurdish origin and adherents of Alevism.

Erkin Koray is a Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist and one of the pioneers of Anatolian rock.

Melek Baykal is a Turkish actress mostly appearing in theater and TV series. Her roles as Nermin, Nurhayat and Pembe raised her popularity. After playing in Ferhunde Hanımlar in Ankara, she got many proposals to play in TV series and movies. Because of it, she decided to move to Istanbul. Baykal started to her career when she was 17 years old in a theater by playing an 85-year-old woman. She graduated from Ankara State Conservatory worked at Ankara State Theaters for a long time. Melek Baykal had her cinematic debut with a movie named Kaçma Birader. In 2012, she had her own TV program on Star TV.

Reha Muhtar is a Turkish anchorman, columnist and television reporter of Iraqi Turkmen descent.

Feryal Özel is a Turkish astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2020, Özel is a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory.

Gökhan Emreciksin is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger.

Ufuk Sarıca is a Turkish former professional basketball player and current head coach of Pınar Karşıyaka.